Blog posts tagged "Liberal Democrats"

November 24, 2011 8:24 pm 20 Comments

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is expected to announce £1bn, opportunities for 500,000 18-24-year-olds, and funding for work placements, apprenticeships and work experience to fend off the scourge of youth unemployment.

July 28, 2010 1:01 pm 3 Comments

They say a stressful holiday can test the sturdiest of marriages. And so it is with the coalition’s odd betrothal. In their mission to wrap India’s booming economy and Britain’s need to export more into two mutually stabilising coils of DNA, yet more internal debate has been fomented, this time over skilled migration. Vince Cable [...]

May 14, 2010 6:22 pm 29 Comments

I do have serious questions about one massive U-turn from Messrs Clegg and Cable - their adoption of the Conservative plan for £6bn of in-year cuts, writes economics editor Faisal Islam.

May 12, 2010 2:41 pm 8 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on Mervyn King's comments about the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat government

May 11, 2010 1:06 pm 2 Comments

There’s no objective evidence so far that the hung parliament hiatus is causing market panic. The single best indicator: demand to buy UK government debt, was tested in what could have been an unfortunately-timed debt auction at 1030 this morning.

April 27, 2010 1:13 pm 8 Comments

So there we have it. Clarity, honesty, and candour on Day 22 of the election campaign. Not at any of the party political press conferences. No, it’s been left to the trusty holders of the spending shield of truth: the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

April 14, 2010 10:02 pm No Comments

If the election was a prize for fiscal candour, the Liberal Democrats might actually win, blogs Faisal Islam.

April 6, 2010 3:14 pm 10 Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on the stance of Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to cutting the UK's £167bn national debt.

April 1, 2010 2:53 pm No Comments

“It’s April Fool’s Day,” is what I muttered to myself, when looking at the line of attack from Darling, Mandelson and Byrne in their extensive 180-page dossier on the “Conservative credibility gap”. Yes it outlines a £22bn gap from the Conservatives on tax and spending pledges, but that suggests that the Labour frontbench think that [...]